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"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
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"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
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"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
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"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
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"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."
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"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."
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"But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle."
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"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."
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"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."
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"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
Happiness
"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."
Writing
"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."
Religion
"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."
Truth
"In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par."
Religion
"Be good and you will be lonesome."
Emotion
"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense."
Truth
"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
Attitude
"He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'."
Health
"It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
Psychology
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